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Wednesday, August 8, 2018

Only the dervishes let their women go free...



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Only the dervishes let their women go free.
My own daughters dance in their heads.

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The men here beat us for bringing flowers
under our burqas to smell.

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I tell my daughters stories to satisfy their freedom.
We sing our landays together by the hearth.

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Perhaps my daughters will travel to kitchens far away,
we have been singing about these places since Eve began.

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